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It's spring break for at least one of the New England states this week, and I will have houseguests tomorrow through Friday.  I have a couple of other things in mind for you for next week, th...

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Hert Niks on Unsplash Who? What? When? Where? and Why? are the classic questions writers deal with. For me, the most important is why? The eternal why? In this case, why did What We All Want...

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Hert Niks on Unsplash I have been a published writer for going on twenty-six years. In that time, my work has been critiqued in various ways, as it should be. If you are a writer, you want t...

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Well, this was an interesting week, what with a solar eclipse and some interesting responses to my most recent publication.  GOAL 1. ADULT SHORT STORIES, ESSAYS, AND HUMOR I had a new humor...

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A book finished--Chilling Effect  by Valerie Valdes. I read this because it was described as science fiction with humor, and, of course, I have an unsold science fiction with humor manuscript,...

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I had a new humor piece published yesterday at Frazzled . As with many of my humor pieces, What We All Want To Say to the Grandfathers at the Playground has a backstory. Tom Barrett on Unsp...

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GOAL 1. ADULT SHORT STORIES, ESSAYS, AND HUMOR Received a rejection on a humor piece. I kid you not, I've submitted so many times to that place that the editor and I are on a first-name basis...

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This is two weeks worth of reading, because I was a lazy blogger last week. THE POET LAUREATE PROJECT  I read some Robert Penn Warren , who was both our third poetry consultant (the precu...

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Net Galley just approved me to read two arcs I requested. And I'm reading a book from Hoopla that I'll lose after 21 days, so I need to finish it up. Because it's worth finishing. I should just d...

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We have people here painting. This morning I was up, showered, and dressed by 7:20 in order to be ready before they got here. This will go on for at least two more days, maybe three. With these...

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I didn't blog this week, so I feel as if I didn't do anything at all. Give that some thought. I could have done a reading post yesterday, because I've done a bit of reading. But I had 30 minute...

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Goal 1. Adult Short Stories, Essays, And Humor Received two rejections. Resubmitted one of the rejected stories. Started a humor piece. Made some definite progress on the short story I've been...

http://blog.gailgauthier.com/2024/03/friday-done-list-march-22.html

Two weeks-worth of reading here. I finished reading American Pop by Snowden Wright. As usual, I don't know what made me put this on my reading list. I suspect it was due to a blurb describing ...

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I haven't been writing about time management much here for a couple of reasons, one being that I'm not doing a good enough job managing time that I should be writing about it. But something happ...

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Today I made three lasagnas and three batches of cookie dough, one of which I baked and...Wait. We're supposed to talk about work here. GOAL 1. ADULT SHORT STORIES, ESSAYS, AND HUMOR Finishe...

http://blog.gailgauthier.com/2024/03/friday-done-list-march-15.html

My second publication of the year, Confessions Of A Doughnut Eater , is what I call an eating essay. My eating essays tend to be memoirish. We could call it a doughnut memoir, inspired by my chi...

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I first heard of Francophonie Month four years ago, when I celebrated it here at OC for a week. Oh, look! I did a round-up of my 2020 Francophonie posts .  After 2020 I missed Francophonie Mo...

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I missed nearly two days of work this week in order to go to a museum and hiking. On the other hand, I saw some great stuff .  Goal 1. Adult Short Stories, Essays, And Humor Started a new ea...

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I probably found Julija Sukys' (I apologize for my inability to deal with accent marks here) site through a Facebook essay group. I'd saved a link to her on my iPad, so I really don't know for ...

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Keeping it Brief: A Celebration of Short Stories on Connecticut Public Radio's Colin McEnroe Show aired yesterday afternoon but is available on-line now. I loved that it was broken into individ...

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So I've been spending the first two months of the year submitting an adult manuscript to literary agents. This gives me an excellent excuse (or at least an excuse) to mention The Trick To Wri...

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  Well, I'm feeling some improvement this week. GOAL 1. ADULT SHORT STORIES, ESSAYS, AND HUMOR Far away from finishing a draft of a short piece this week. But I have started work on the sh...

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I managed to finish another book this week, On Earth as It is On Television by Emily Jane. Terrific book, and I now have a thought about humor in fiction. Which I may have had before, but, if s...

http://blog.gailgauthier.com/2024/02/some-annotated-reading-february-29.html

I saw Oppenheimer Saturday night. Perhaps if I'd been in a theater and couldn't keep going onto my iPad to check out the historical figures in the movie and dwell on the unhappy women in Oppen...

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A week of just treading water . In fact, I wanted to go to a museum today to see an exhibit that's ending soon and gave it up out of guilt. I found out I have a free day tomorrow, though. Of cou...

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